#staring

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attention #does #his #never #nothing

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face. ↗

— Charlie Bell

#getting #getting old #i #man #old

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...] ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#fake #kiss #love #staring #time

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#back #character #finds #him #his

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. ↗

— Ira Glass

#coined #enough #into #long #radio

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy. ↗

— Fred Durst

#being #dig #down #emotional #energy